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For
years, I have done genealogy research by searching family members'
NAMES. I recently decided to trace newspaper articles that
referred to our ADDRESS. After living in Robertsdale,
Pennsylvania from 1913 until about 1920, they had a short stay at 18
Peacock Street in Buffalo's Canal District until about 1922.
Then the family moved to the
East Side of Buffalo. They had an upper flat at 309 Myrtle Avenue,
where they abided for over twenty years. I was the only member
of my siblings to be born in a hospital, but I was born while we
lived at 309 Myrtle. My memories of the place are vague, and
any family members who remember it have passed, but my newspaper
search has brought some 'life' back to our stay there.
The photo below is
the only one I have of 309 Myrtle, looking across Seneca Street to
the F. N. Burt cardboard box factory.
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The F. N.
Burt factory
from the empty lot that was 309
Myrtle Avenue.
~ August 2012 ~ |
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Buffalo Times, 1
October 1922, p. 81 |
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The
first clippings I found reported a
kitchen fire at the home. These are from the
Buffalo Times of 1
October 1922, page 81, and a story in
Italian from Il Corriere Italiano of
7 October 1922.
Interesting that both the
English and Italian version gave my father
Gaetano's name as Guy.
This date is curious,
because his first daughter, Carmela Mary
(Millie),
born on 27 May 1923, was baptized at
Our Lady of Mount Carmel church, which
was in the Canal District, where the family had
lived briefly. Her 1923 baptism record
states that her father Cajetano
(quasi-Latin for Gaetano) Coniglio's
residence was 18 Peacock Street. So did he
have two addresses? Was Millie born at
18 Peacock, or at 309 Myrtle?
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Corriere Italiano, 7
October 1922, p. 4 |
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